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Anticlimactically ended was the well-publicized case of balding, bespectacled Bandsman Kay Kyser v. the draft. Turned down on his 1-A appeal, despite OWI-backing for his efforts as a war-bond hawker, the 36-year-old swingster was turned down by Army physicians (hernia and arthritis...
...draft board of Rocky Mount, N.C. (pop. 14,919) last week had apparently succeeded in drafting the town's No. 1 citizen, Band Leader Kay Kyser ("the old Professor of Musical Knowledge...
...Kyser, aged 37¾, had never appealed for deferment. But Elmer Davis' OWI had. Reason: Kyser and his band outperform all other entertainers of the troops (1,100 appearances in 300 camps). In addition, he has sold $95 millions of war bonds...
...spite of this showing, the Presidential Appeal Board last week backed Rocky Mount's draft board in its effort to put a uniform on Kay Kyser. Drawled the Professor (who is nearly blind without glasses, stumbles from a trick knee): "This puts me on a real spot. If ah pass the physical and they give me a band job, people will all say ah've got a soft touch. If ah don't, they'll swear it was a put-up job. Ah hope they give me a job fighting...
...show must go on, and so it will at 9 o'clock tonight when jazz hounds will have a chance to hear a professional jam session with former players from the bands of Bob Crosby, Kay Kyser, and Phil Harris. Directed by SO Robert K. Adams, the NTS chorus will introduce Officer William B. Chase's new song. "No Tears, Dry Eyes...